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Classifications are not inherently bad or "babylon"
But yes I we are all unique and different yet we are all the same. We are all 1 people yet we have different groups as even acknowledged by HIM himself ("We Africans"..."Ethiopians"). This is the duality I speak of. There is InI as well as you and me.

At least in my estimation

As a Garveyite PanAfrican. And part of a tribe of people with a history culture and nationality erased from the record. These two particular classifications hold great importance. MAAFA mafia. Yet still we a 1 blood. I can't escape the duality

Bless up Ras Nesta

Messenger: Nesta1

Sent: 1/28/2019 7:26:47 AM

That's true, G.A.: Classifications are not inherently bad. They are essential to language and are frequently used as well-meaning generalizations, in our daily communications, which allow us to discuss past and/or current events, geographic distributions, etc. (e.g., using nationalities in describing an historic event or a global travel experience).

What IS evil is when Babylon uses said classifications "to confuse our minds into inflicting divisiveness, prejudice, separation/segregation and (sometimes) violence upon one another". This brainwashing by Babylon to foment the divisive and separatist/isolationist mentality (i.e., keep us apart) is the Babylon System's trick of deception against which RastafarI struggle continually.

I&i will ForIver cherish the words of my now-deceased Bugandan brother Sam Kiwanuka as we talked late one evening in 1992 on the veranda of his home in Kampala:

�The ancestors of all humanity spread out from here in the heart of Africa. The truth of the matter is: You are as African as I am.�

JAH bless, Sam, and the way in which he embraced & honored his fellow human beings. What a wonderful, welcoming person he was. His work to alleviate the suffering of the direct & indirect victims of AIDS in Uganda was truly inspiring.

Messenger: RasTafarIWork

Sent: 1/28/2019 7:32:47 AM

Now, if dea be oneness in RasTafari, why dem name calling finger pointing who dem apprecilove bible teaching?

Messenger: GARVEYS AFRICA

Sent: 1/28/2019 11:19:05 PM

Dont name call and finger point bible believers. Finger point to the Bible itself. Not to the believers.

The 1ness in Rastafari is no matter how we come to the trod or in individual personal beliefs we still come to the conclusion to declare Haile Selassie.

At the end of every reasoning it's Rastafari

"Selah"

Messenger: Nesta1

Sent: 1/29/2019 4:07:06 AM

"At the end of every reasoning it's Rastafari " - i like that. Very nicely put.

Messenger: RasTafarIWork

Sent: 1/29/2019 11:14:49 AM

I have to learn RasTafari Example and Teachings.
1 LOVE.

Messenger: IPXninja

Sent: 1/29/2019 2:41:45 PM

"Dont name call and finger point bible believers. Finger point to the Bible itself. Not to the believers. "

This was a good response. Well meaning people often combine themselves with the bible so that its hard to separate the believer from the book they follow.

But are we really following it?

Example...

We talk about one love. And we talk about the black woman and child.

How does that reason with the bible's depiction of a woman being inferior to the point of being property and being counted as one of the spoils of war? How does that mesh with Israelite men getting rich and having multiple wives? And does this not create a negative role model situation where modern followers subconsciously use bible characters to justify indiscretions?

I struggle to find any place in the bible that treats women to the level that they deserve. And then because we act ignorantly towards them they in turn return the favor. In some cases our former slave masters are having better relationships with them than we are.

Messenger: GARVEYS AFRICA

Sent: 1/29/2019 8:28:50 PM

Talk de tings......

The Bible puts the man as the head of the house..... how is this aligned with balance, maat and equality? The Bible has numerous references putting women as subsidiary or secondary citizens.
We don't see this in other cultures such as the female Empresses of Kemet or the Candaces of Ethiopia....

Not to mention all the references about women being offered as captive 'loot'for invaders in the name of Bible God

Messenger: RasTafarIWork

Sent: 1/30/2019 4:55:52 AM

I think gender inequality is ascribed to culture and tradition. The bible describes it as it was in Israel.

Messenger: Nesta1

Sent: 1/30/2019 9:56:06 AM

Most of the religions i can think of identify roles for men and women that are not identical. They acknowledge that there are difference in the biological forms and functions of men and women. However, my personal observation has been that it is far too simplistic (almost cartoonishly so) to cast women as the underdogs and men as the top of the heap in the real-life practices of most adherents to major religions. There are always cases of people who treat others poorly (& even use a religious justification), with a lack of civility and respect, but i have not observed this to be a dominant situation between the men and women of any of the religious groups to which i have been intimately exposed.